Evaluating of Tiangong-1 imaging spectrometer data oriented to geological applications[J]. Journal of Remote Sensing, 2014,18(S1):83. DOI: 10.11834/jrs.2014z12.
is another sensor after Hyperion of America being suitable for geological applications. It is important to evaluate the reflectance data quantitatively. However
quantitative evaluation of spaceborne data is difficult because of low spatial resolution and largegeometric error which will make it difficult to compare ground and imaging spectra. In this paper
the Tiangong-1 hyperspectral data was evaluated on the basis of HyMap data and ground spectra
and was compared with Hyperion data. Results show that
the signal-to-noise of Tiangong-1 data is larger than Hyperion data in shortwave infrared wavelength range
which is important to minerals retrieval. A correction method is put forward to reduce the spectral system error
which can improve the identification rate of minerals. Through spectral correction
the miss identification rate of Al-OH
Mg-OH/CO32- bearing minerals decrease from 71% and 67% to 29% and 28%.